The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-19
SUMMERS COME.
Chat A bout Bright Folks and Rosina
VOkeS


NEW York, June 1S.-Rosina Vokes
closed her season with her engage
ment in Brooklyn last week, but she
has been in no hurry to leave New York,
where she has been domesticated at the St
James Hotel II ever woman fully APP
preciated New York, that woman is the vi
vacious, agile, laughter-provoking come
djenne, and the visitor who has any serious
intention of seeing her had need time a
visit on a rainy morning, when the sky
holds out no inducements for a drive be-
hind fast stopper i'll the park, or to the race
course.
Mr.. Courtney Thorpe, Mr. Weldon Gros-
smith and other banishers of the blues, who
have lent her their assistance i'll improving
the temper and digestion of America dur
Ing the past winter, were wandering up and
down the hotel corridors the other day in a
restless sort of fashion, as if the next train
should leave the Grand Central Mr.. Clay,
''AIiss Vokes husband, and an efficient man
ager of her interests, was lettering about
anxious to get rid comfortably of the
time until waiting for that little woman to
emerge freshly dressed from the hands of her
maid, and Miss Nokes herself in pale blue
surah morning gown, with a good deal of
lace floating about much at its own sweet will
over it, and with her hands as usual in her
tangle of curly hair was, the day being a
gloomy one, in no particular hurry to pro-
coed with the calls of the day.
Rosina Nokes is not a pretty woman, but
she has the effect of being so, which is much
the same. Her eyes are as big and as bright,
and she uses them quite as effectively from
hotel rockingham as on the stage and her
small foot taps the floor in the same quick,
impatient way.
Il am not going back to England this
summer" she said, 'at least not until my
vacation is nearly done. | am going to
Newport and then to Bar Harbor, which is
by long odds the most delightful to me of
all the summer resorts Later, | may have
to go abroad for fresh man or two to go
into my company next year. have got
one or two new pieces, and, if | dared, I'd
say I'd give good deal for two or three
more. But suppose if / made any such re-
mark I'd have an avalanche tumbling on
my poor head"
Bernhardt's condemnation of the corset
has been town-talk of late and Rosina Vokes
has next to Bernhardt perhaps the most slen-
der figure of any actress on the stage.
''Dear me, yes; wear corsets Just like
anybody else" she replied to question on
that point Il know everybody says |
don't, but some of my corsets are SO pretty
that it is almost a shame to put a dress over
them at all. Isuppose almost every corset
maker in the country has sent me some stays
by this time, exquisite things they have been
too, but | always send them back, though it
is enough to break ones heart sometimes to
do so. 1t is not fair to give people puffs-
for, of course, that is what they are given
me for-and say l always wear them and
they are better than any others, for how do
/ know but that the man who dosent
think to send me any, makes the best after
all!
Eyes, l do pull all the bones out and make
them as light as / can. for | suppose corsets
with steel in them would almost make q
cripple of me if | tried to dance in them or
be especially active before the footlights |
go that far in dress reform, but the points
take most pains with are my contrivances-
I've tried half dozen of them-for keeping
my skirts down so as not to show my ankles.
or much of them, ON the stage A partition
through the draperies that almost amounts
to divided skirts does best and that is handy
about dancing and helps in managing train
besides
Miss Vokes is very fond of horses and used
to own one or two good ones in England.
She has driven out to Jerome Park several
times this spring and her Judgment of the
points of an animal is apt to be correct.
There are very few women who can pick
out a likely winner with more accuracy OF
who grow more excited over his struggles
than she. Her husband processes the ut
most respect for her decision on horse, but
adds emphatically that she never BETS not
even gloves.
SUMMER FURNISHINGS.
One would hardly know a city house with
which he had been never so familiar in
February or March at this time of year. 1t
is coming to be the pretty and hygienic
fashion to displace all winter belongings
with the coolest and ARREST of summer plen-
ishings, turning the most shut-in, brick
walled and be-pavemented of brownstone
fronts into a veritable warm weather bower
The transformed and made-over house is
almost like new one, and to people who
must stay in town, though for that matter
the plan is likely to prove equally popular
out of town, is worth far more in the relief
to the eye and the sense of freshness than it
costs.
A summer house in a favored quarter of
the city ON which | expended a few surplus
EXPLANATIONS yesterday, has had all its car
pets and heavy furniture taken away and
stored. The parlor floors were originally
laid with hard pine, and these have been
cleaned and treated TO several coats of shell
lac Rugs strewn about in profusion pre-
serve the inhabited, home effect. The por-
there's and heavy stuff curtains have been re-
placed in like manner with flowing Madras
knn6ings tied back with grasses and
branches of smilax All the paintings and
heavy looking pictures have forfeited their
places on the walls, and in their stead etch-
ings, engravings and mezzotypes give sugges-
tions of GOODNESS and summer rest. More
Madras hangings replace the winter tapestry
panels, with wandering jew and the run
ming German ivy clambering over them and
giving the finishing nature touch. Cush-
ions, footstools and divans covered with
Vatican figured cretonnes have been scat
tered with liberal hand, and the rattan and
rush sofas and low, broad easy chairs have
large Elder down pillows covered with light
silk. There are rockers without arms and
not stuffed but cushioned just enough in the
back and arms to make them easy. There
are ferns and green growing things in the
window, and the entire effect is as cool and
sunlmerish as you please. Every other room
in the house has been subjected to the same
treatment The library floor has been
treated to a coat of brown stain and had q
half dozen rugs apportioned to it, and the
bedrooms, with their cool green mattings,
white rugs, willow bedsteads and white
scrim curtains that sweeten the air that
blows through them, would tempt sleep on
the sultriest of July nights The summer
furnishings is not unduly expensive. II
saves the winter carpets and costs no more
than very modest trip to the seaside. 1t
Is dainty enough to tempt the wandering
wife and daughters for once TO stay at home
and act as missionaries TO the ofiice-impris-